Isaac Asimov Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Real, Educational

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

• Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Reading, Book Banning

• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Book, Way

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

• I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Taught

• Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Ignorance

• When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Problem

• I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Reading, School

• But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Reading, People

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.58, Bantam

• And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, People, Paper

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes”

• What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Law

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

• Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Love You, Dying

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.300, Bantam

• Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can see all that is happening outside. That is the equivalent of writing that is plain and unadorned. Ideally, in reading such writing, you are not even aware that you are reading. Ideas and events seem merely to flow from the mind of the writer into that of the reader without any barrier between. I hope that is what is happening when you read this book

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Reading, Writing

• Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

• He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

  Isaac Asimov

  Reading, Book, Men

• The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that
  -- No, No! What makes it doubly sad is that they hardly know the book, much less its origins.

  Isaac Asimov

  Christian, Book, Stories

• It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, Book, Thinking

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